Facebook Kicks Around College Football’s AP Top 25 Preseason Teams

The 2013 college football season kicked off with a handful of games Thursday night, and Data Editor Robert D'Onofrio helped Facebook users prepare for the first weekend of tailgating by analyzing the social network’s fans of the top 25 teams in the AP preseason rankings, uncovering some surprising findings, and some that were not so surprising.

The 2013 college football season kicked off with a handful of games Thursday night, and Data Editor Robert D’Onofrio helped Facebook users prepare for the first weekend of tailgating by analyzing the social network’s fans of the top 25 teams in the AP preseason rankings, uncovering some surprising findings, and some that were not so surprising.

Florida had the most fans in counties in the most states, at 27, followed by Ohio State at 24, and Texas at 23.

The state of Illinois had 10 teams represented across 102 counties, while Missouri boasted nine teams.

There were 10 states where every single county rooted for the same team. In five of those states, the team was based in that state, while in the other five, the favored school was located in another state:

Unusual pairings of teams and locations included: University of Notre Dame fans in eastern Pennsylvania; Ohio State fans in Arizona; Florida finishing No. 1 in Jasper County, Ga.; Texas fans in the middle of Maine; and Florida fans in the Northeast.